Sensor Walk

Today our assignment was to walk around campus and look for sensors in the environment and brainstorm ideas that we could turn these sensors into works of art. Some sensors I found involved the use of human interaction, such as swiping a card, pushing a button, or moving in front of a sensor to initiate a response, such as a light or a block in movement. Other sensors I found took in environmental data, like smoke, fire, or air temperature, to initiate an appropriate response. These sensors seemed to be all over the campus, mostly, in my opinion, to make things more stand-alone, so that they can work without constant human supervision. Without thermometers attached to AC units, the AC would just be a fan, instead of a system that just maintains a controlled temperature in the environment.